/fast/ - Sonic the Hedgehog

I wanna go faster!

>>9633

Lanky Sonic is not cute.

Morning /fast/

>>9646

Morning anon.

>>9646

Good morning.

>>9646

Morning!

What do you think Sonic characters eat for breakfast?

>>9652

Most of the cast? Cereal, or a pancakes/eggs/bacon

Sonic? Chilidogs

>>9652

Tails would often skip meals because he'd be too concentrated and engaged with what he's doing that he'd forget

>>9662

Really cute. Are the outfits a reference to something?

>>9664

I have no idea, but I don't think so.

>>9654

Sonic can't just eat chilidogs for every meal every day.

>>9664

I believe it's just a Holiday Bump & Sage.

>>9666

He'll definitely try

>>9663

D E S T I N Y

I can't handle the wait for the December announcement anymore. It's been 4 days of agony. The worst part is that it's going to wind up being something dumb and I'll have gotten excited and hot and bothered over nothing

>>9669

I think the December announcement may have been that Sonic candle thing

>>9671

it better not be, at least one person will kill him/herself if that's the announcement

>>9674

They're just memeing

>>9675

I know but it's funny to think about

>>9677

because this is the sonic fanbase

Favorite spin off games? I'm pretty fond of Spinball

>>9686

Sonic R

>>9686

Sonic Battle.

Part of me has hopes that we'll one day get a sequel, or a game that's similar to it since it was a lot of fun to play through & it has one of my favorite one-off characters in Emerl.

>>9686

Toxic caves is kino

>>9669

It's been said it's not a big thing, right? I can't imagine it will be anything too interesting.

>>9667

>I believe it's just a Holiday Bump & Sage.

Whatever the case, I like the outfits. It's refreshing.

>>9662

Cuties. Jewelry goes well with Bump. I like seeing them in different outfits though their usual clothes will always be the best.

>>9666

Sonic is not good at accepting things he can't do.

>>9722

Yes, but he mostly has nightmares where he is not fast.

>>9722

I think Sonic is too full of himself to have nightmares about not being capable of stuff. Foolish hedgehog

>>9686

Sonic The Fighters has a special place in my heart due to it being one of the very first Sonic games I ever played aside from the SA2 demo. Can't go wrong with AM2, even if they had better games. I just wish there was a proper sequel to either that or Fighters' Megamix with Bark and Bean in tow.

Good night /sthg/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCBruLvcE8E

>>9671

If this is it I'm going to feel disappointed even though I never even followed the clues and stuff.

>>9674

The announcement is going to be that (((Ken Penders))) returns to write Sonic!

Speaking of which, did anyone buy https://www.target.com/p/sonic-the-hedgehog-presents-knuckles-the-echidna-archives-6-paperback/-/A-53998072?

Wasn't Sonic in a outfit like this in the classic era? If so, it's a neat callback.

>>9757

I think he was but I don't have a pic on me.

That being said, it's cool they're doing Holiday events for Speed Battle, even though it's been a year or so since it came out.

Does anyone here play it?

>>9758

I do.

>>9761

How is it? I've never really tried the mobile Sonic games but I have heard some solid things about Speed Battle.

So why don't games have cutscenes like this? I mean this from a objective standpoint. Is it cost? The guy seem to have handle it on his own pretty well, I'm sure it didn't take as long to work on this over game coding or so. Is there some reason companies don't do narration like this?

I could understand the notion doing this in ingame cutscenes would be preferred, but would be too demanding under gameplay engines, because something could go wrong, but if ingame cutscenes had to barely matter animation wise (e.g, Sonic Forces), why even bother with them? If I had to sell for action where it can't be done within gameplay, why not just do this method instead?

What do you guys think? Is this doable for video game cinematic, or is it not worth it/doable?

SEGASonic Bros has been found, apparently.

>>9765

I think it just depends on who's animating the cutscenes. Sonic Riders had some pretty expressive facial expressions as did Rise of Lyric but the last few years of Sonic games featured pretty stiff animation where everything feels so lacking in terms of liveliness & expressiveness.

Forces being a big offender, with how some cutscenes would see characters look like ragdolls (like that Shadow scene where he's rushing into Zavok & Metal Sonic clones).

>>9766

Hmm, so, my next question would be; do we know who were behind the animation of Riders and, imo, Unleashed? I don't mean the CGI, which was both done by the same animation team, but I mean the in game cutscenes, which I agree was rather expressive and had detail put into those expressions. As much as I don't like the models used in Riders, I'd like those details back again.

Also, nice find anon, thanks for sharing. Grats to the person that discovered this.

>>9767

Well, we do have these:

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Riders_credits

http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Unleashed_credits

But I don't know if the people who did the in-game cutscenes for these games are still around. I'd be pretty surprised if they were, tbh.

>>9766

>SEGASonic Bros has been found, apparently.

Oh neat! So somebody must've dumped it then, I wonder if there will be a download soon.

>it's snowing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7-ixllcgo

>>9778

Thanks for posting it! I'll give it a read when I get home later.

>>9779

Don't mention it!

There's also a little behind the scenes thing they have that I'll probably post later

Thanks for posting the comic, wondering who the guy who wrote it is.

Goellner? Has he done anything else?

>>9783

From doing a quick search, it seems like he's worked on a couple IDW TMNT comics & two Dark Horse series'.

>>9776

Man, Silver's kind of a downer in this.

>>9772

>>9773

>>9775

>>9776

>>9777

>>9778

That seemed pretty alright for what it was. Thanks for posting it, anon.

When was the last time you played a sonic game, /sthg/?

>>9814

4 days ago

>>9814

Sonic Mania.

Last 3D was Generations.

I still play it from time to time, like once per month or so.

>>9814

Rush Adventure. People weren't joking that it's padded with mundane item grinding

>>9823

Woops. Forgot to add "about a week ago".

>>9814

According to Steam, the last Sonic game I played was Mania in July.

>>9814

I replayed Sonic Battle at the beginning of the year. It was nice

>>9814

Redowloaded a few to add some SHC mods to it.

So SADX most recently

>>9833

If you're talking about 4/v/, then yeah I understand the sentiment

>>9814

I played Lost World's PC port last week, turns out it's busted so I didn't even get to enjoy that full QUALITY gameplay experience. The first fight with Zavok was literally unbeatable.

>>9829

>SHC

Shit I completely forgot about that. How was it, anyways?

>>9837

Ouch. I played it and even made a mod for it and didn't have any troubles fortunately.

>>9839

I also had problems with getting the Eagle Wisp to move vertically, which meant I almost couldn't even get to Zavoc

>>9843

I'm in love with this panel

>>9838

Haven't touched any of the 2D stuff but there's some solid 3D stuff, enjoying the Generations level ports. Kingdom Valley is actually pretty fun.

>>9766

It looks actually fun, but I could never be good at a game like this

>operation outside of this area may constitute a violation of international low

sega pls

>>9766

After watching this for three minutes, I still don't understand how you're supposed to match the colors to clear them

>>9851

I think you're supposed to do closed figures with them, like circles or squares.

>>9765

Motherfucker, that was actually quite awesome to watch, and I'm far from being a Nintendo fan. I think it's all part of the same issue. We could have better cutscenes, better stories, and better games altogether, but it just never ends up happening, even though aspects of the games sometimes end up being so shoddy that it's hard to think someone would think it's okay to make them like that.

>but would be too demanding under gameplay engines

Do you mean for the in game graphics engine? Gameplay doesn't have anything to do with in game animations. as far as I know.

>Is this doable for video game cinematic

Yes, definitely. Hell, SFM uses the Source Engine, which is a normal video game engine and not something separate or special. It's quite an old engine too. I've always thought animations were costly as hell, though, so that's why I assumed Sonic Team only used them sparingly.

Now the question is, are there any animations like that one but with Sonic? That was really fucking cool.

>>9855

The classic approach would seem archaic today.

>>9856

Why? It would just look like how Mario did it.

And btw, I don't mean "muh no dialog, just show and tell", that's not what I mean by that.

>>9857

In fact a better example, just do what Sonic Heroes did, just better and without the CGI cutscenes.

>>9854

Something a bit unexpected found from the Sega Sonic Bros arcade game. Sound familiar? Reminds me how a part of stage 1's theme from an old Sega game called Quartet has a part that sounds like 'It Doesn't Matter' from 1:12 onwards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcEDEGeRlcg

Or the SMS/GG Sonic 1 ending theme resembles Savannah Citadel.

>>9861

I didn't mean to spoiler that. Also I can't find the video after I realize I said I'd post it. Sorry.

>>9863

The OVA was really weird.

>>9868

Sleep tight!

>>9866

>>get a dreamcast and play the original version of sonic adventure

But that webm is not the original, those are the DX models from the looks of it. Unless webm related wasn't in regards to your greentext directly.

>>9871

It's Sonic Adventure International, doesn't look like they changed the models to me: https://tcrf.net/Sonic_Adventure_(Dreamcast)/Version_Differences

I assumed being a Dreamcast version was close enough to refer to it as the original seeing as you'd have to play in Japanese (this one has eng text option) to play the very first release of the game. (can't find the release date but sounds like this was 9 months after original) Iirc the first one was actually the Generator demo, which came with my dreamcast and I played before figuring out the serial port sd card reader

Does /fast/ have a mascot oc?

slow

What is, in your honest opinion, the worst Sonic game to date?

Hard more: No Sonic 06

>>9883

what do you think it could be?

>>9883

84?

>>9884

A tiny gift

>>9883

Seems a lot of people are saying Chao stuff. Imo with the Sonic Heroes key, which took you to the Special Stage, maybe it's some form of SS spinoff game or something for mobile. I doubt anything as large as a full fledge game would come out this month, if this post implies we'll be paying for whatever this is.

Well remember, Aaron said whatever the December announcement is isn't game-related.

Maybe it's some Chao merch?

>>9888

Merch is always likely. They seem to have a lot of freedom regarding what things they can create to sell.

http://www.tssznews.com/2018/12/06/sonic-movie-teaser-shown-off-at-paramounts-comic-con-experience-2018-presentation/

>Sonic’s preview made Cinemark’s audience agitated. The teaser began with a close close on the face of the hedgehog, which is at the same time as caricature, textured and realistic. Something in Detective Pikachu’s suit. After this we see a plane of the character running and breaking the sound barrier.

>Sonic The Hedgehog hits theaters on November 14, 2019.

oh my god. I hate doomsaying and whining but oh my god the movie is going to suck isn't it

http://www.tssznews.com/2018/12/06/sonic-movie-teaser-shown-off-at-paramounts-comic-con-experience-2018-presentation/

>Premiere Line was present at the fifth edition of Comic Con Experience in São Paulo with our editor Matheus Maskalenka , who has great information about Paramount’s presentation at CCXP. From Bumblebee to SONIC, the studio came strong for the show and we will describe everything that has come to you.

>After the individual presentations, it was time to look ahead. Paramount has unveiled its line-up of films for the future, featuring Top Gun: Maverick, Dora the Explorer, GI Joe 3, De Sudden Family, Dungeons and Dragons, and a preview of SONIC.

>Sonic’s preview made Cinemark’s audience agitated. The teaser began with a close close on the face of the hedgehog, which is at the same time as caricature, textured and realistic. Something in Detective Pikachu’s suit. After this we see a plane of the character running and breaking the sound barrier.

Oh boy

>>9891

Whoops, mods pls delete.

>>9890

Yeah this film is gonna be shit

>>9890

No one is in a Pikachu suit. That was something with the translation.

>Teaser begins with a close up of Sonic’s face.

>He is textured and realistic, similar to Detective Pikachu.

>The character then runs and breaks the sound barrier.

still scary though. Pikachu looks kind of cute but also kind of uncanny. I can't even imagine what Sonic is going to look like if they're comparing him to that

>>9890

>Sonic’s preview made Cinemark’s audience agitated

Is that supposed to be positive or negative?

>which is at the same time as caricature, textured and realistic

We knew he was going to be redesigned but it still sounds awful. I can't believe that after how anal Sonic Team was about their brand they let things like these now pass.

>>9886

>Seems a lot of people are saying Chao stuff.

Maybe they're adding a chao garden to team sonic racing?

>>9894

Well according to this translation, it's not so bad.

https://twitter.com/BlueParax/status/1070803325858263040

I hope the movie is gonna bomb hard.

>>9895

Hmm, didn't think of that. I mean, it never was stated it had to be something new, never before seen, that this relates to, so maybe so. I mean we got a Chao Team for the game, maybe that could be a factor for TSR's content as well

>>9893

Different suit, knuckle-head.

>>9902

They're a thing? In which case, yes

>>9902

I imagine it would cost more than I'd be willing to pay for.

>>9904

They are, but I don't know if they're available to everyone or it was just something for staff.

>>9903

What if we redesigned Bump?

>>9907

I was trying to do that a while ago actually, but I kinda fell off from that because I was busy with other things. I should get back to it though.

>>9909

tbf, I don;t know if he meant her general look (e.g, Classic Amy to Modern Amy) or just a different outfit, which was what I was thinking.

Imo, I like both Bump and Sage, but their outfits aren't really Sonic-ish at all to me. I heard "that's the point" because they are meant to be silly little college girls with normal lives, but tell that to Cream.

>>9911

2nd one looks like Greninja.

>>9910

>their outfits aren't Sonicy enough

Maybe? I'm not saying there isn't a possible better design for them. I just can't think of any outfits that would make them appear more official wiith different clothes that matches their personality as well as their current outfits

>>9916

I'm not advocating this, but at the same time, maybe it's because the designs of Bump and Sage don't look as "Shonen" as the likes of Shadow, Blaze and Silver. And even Amy to some extent.

>Crash Team Racing announced for June

Welp, RIP TSR.

>>9915

That smol Bump a cute. And tbh, I like the current Bump & Sages, but I would interested in some pics showing them in looking a bit different like the Boom redesign, or the Battle alt attires someone did recently.

>>9919

I wouldn't say rip, CTR is just a remaster of an old game. TSR is going for a different take on the genre, so there's still some reason to get it, especially if there's more time fixing the game's issues.

>>9920

I don't think either of them are gonna take off.

>>9893

>No one is in a Pikachu suit. That was something with the translation.

Have you ever played a card game?

>>9902

>looks like dark chocolate

yes

>SMBZ dies

>Fans bring it back with a Super take on it

Should I be hyped for this? Will it die again? Will I even care anymore since that era of 'tism is gone now?

>>9925

>Newgrounds lives again

>Super Mario Brothers Super

Tbh, I'm surprised i took this long before someone did a fan-made continuation of SMBZ. It wasn't a perfect series, but I loved the amount of effort it had put into it so I'm kinda hyped for this.

>>9929

Morning anon.

Have a new tweet from Aaron: https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/854739876134109184

>>9929

Morning anon.

>a new horrible day

But it's Friday, think about that sweet alone time you'll spend tonight!

>>9930

Wrong link?

>>9932

Nah, turns out I just can't read

>>9929

>pic

Yeah me too, buddy

>>9935

it's probably going to be today's announcement

>>9935

I think there are chances we could get at least a pic, but I imagine they'll release something officially soon for everyone to see. What I wonder is how the fanbase is going to react when they see it.

>>9938

>He

But ey, that's a really nice painted Sonic. Thanks for the heads-up

>>9938

Damn, nice, but I want to see the whole thing.

>>9942

I do get a distinct Finitevus vibe from him, but I'm admittedly curious as to where he goes with Starline

>>9941

>delays again

Gives a bad vibe. Is this only happening on their Sonic line or did it happen for other comics of theirs too? What do you think is the cause?

On the other hand, more comics. Do you think it's a second monthly comic or just another one off like they did for TSR, maybe for the movie?

>>9942

What animal is Starline based off?

Sonic should dye his fur.

>>9946

What if we're getting a Classic Sonic book?

>>9947

If it's a classic comic, I'd be interested in seeing how they'd go about it.

Obviously characters like the Hooligans, Mighty & Ray would be used, but what about certain stuff like Honey or the Super Emeralds? Would IDW be allowed to touch that?

>>9947

What if it's a Boom Sonic book?

>>9949

Boom IP is likely blacklisted by now.

>>9955

I wish ST would make games like Battle again

>>9958

Yeah. More spinoffs besides the usual racers would be great, tbh

>>9959

Not just spin offs. I'm starving for decent world building and story. I only started up Battle and was squeeing when I saw that Sonic and friends live in a neighborhood with houses

>>9942

I want to hate this design because it has so much going on but I can't. It's perfectly ridiculous yet cool for a villian

>>9960

I'm still confused by Tails having his entire head as his house. Although yeah, seeing where every Sonic character lived/lives was pretty fun.

>>9962

>softimage

F. You were too good for this world

>S3 lead artist worked on Castle of Illusion and Quackshot

Excellent

>>9964

The hell is he talking about?

>>9955

I don't understand Tails in this picture.

So… with this reminding me and that Joker for Persona 5 is coming to Smash as DLC, if there was a change another Sonic character were to get it, which one would you want it to be? Not what's likely, just what you want.

Tails and Amy are the only ones left for me. Eggman could be cool, though I thought he'd be the same as Wily and be a boss or something.

>>9969

Honestly, it's a tie between Eggman & Amy.

Not just because I like those characters, but also because it would be incredibly interesting to see how those two would work in a Smash game, especially Amy. I can't even imagine what her final smash would be like.

>>9969

Neo Metal Sonic. I want my evil metal hedgehog wizard dammit.

>>9964

This is the first Penders tweet I've seen in awhile, has he stopped being mostly stupid on twitter or have people finally stopped paying a lot of attention to him?

>>9972

He still tweets a lot, but he doesn't tweet a lot of stupid Sonic-related stuff as much as before.

>>9975

Why doesn't Eggman just drown Sonic?

>>9974

Do you think we'll see Buddy again eventually?

>>9977

I think we'll see it again. And by "it" I mean the whole create a character feature, since it was the most well-received part of Sonic Forces.

My hope is that if they bring it back, they add more to it. All the animals that was only in the concept version of the game & never used in the final release is incredibly disappointing & it's something I really, really want to see changed if they ever use it again.

>>9981

I dunno how active the entire site is (since I mostly just stay on the Sonic boards), but I do admit that the slow & mostly easygoing vibe of this place is nice.

>>9983

Yeah, the slow pace of this board can be annoying sometimes, but it's still pretty comfy.

Hopefully when/if we're able to grow this board, we don't lose that.

>>9977

Like the other anon said, I think Create a character feature returns, but I'm not sure if they'll keep the same promotional red wolf design. I could see it as a template in-game as a nice reference, though.

>>9981

The site in general looks like it's managing fine. It's pretty slow here on /fast/, but there's not much Sonic stuff going on right now anyway.

https://soundcloud.com/sonichyuga/sets/sonic-advance-1-3-remaster

This is pretty good.

>>9988

Not bad. Sounds better than Sonic 4 by a mile, wouldn't mind that if something official came with that music.

>>9991

>>9991

>>9994

Yeah, it came from some Sonic live show done in SEGA Sydney. Has several songs, which are a fun listen.

>>9962

That's a lot of interesting info, thanks for posting. It's amazing how much stuff they managed to put into 3&K and how much they worked to be able to get away with it. They could have just half assed it and they would have still managed to make a good game but they went the extra mile and managed to create something amazing.

Is the Carnival Night render from 3:30 from somewhere?

>Sonic Spinball managed to sell over 1 million physical copies in 1993

>the franchise struggles to sell 1 million combined copies in 2018

feels bad man.

>>9960

As much as I want worldbuilding and stories myself, considering most of the past 3D games it's pretty naive to ever expect it unfortunately.

>>9998

There's something incredibly fun about playing as Super Sonic in the normal levels, just for how broken he is.

Also, what game are you playing?

>>9999

Sonic Adventure.

>>9991

>>10005

Red since it looks like Sonic's shoes.

What is your dream Sonic game, /sthg/? Don't be shy. Let the autism flow through you

>>10007

Is it weird to say I don't really have a specific one? I just want a fun Sonic game that lasts longer than 4 hours at this point.

>>9993

https://clyp.it/uznkiswx

Not Me

>>10008

I know what you mean, but I'm sure you have preferences at least in some areas, right? Like, would you rather the game be boost, adventure, or full 2D sidescrolling? Would you like it to have some cutscenes, lotsa cutscenes, or no cutscenes? What about the music, synthetized, rock, something else? Vocal songs or no vocal songs? Many playable characters or just Sonic? And so on.

>>10007

Maybe something like a more polished Sonic R with online multiplayer that actually works and custom playermodels and maps.

>>10021

Bump and Sage game when?

>>10023

I mean, all that is is just airdashing basically. That's kinda all it really should be I guess.

I was hoping to make Mania styled sprites of this at some point, but I've been really busy lately.

>>10019

I suppose my only real want is full 3D. No more sidescrolling in Modern Sonic now that we likely have a Classic Sonic series with the Mania devs. Story doesn't matter too much to me, just don't make it cringy or half-assed like Forces. Music-wise, I want something like Unleashed/Adventure with multiple composers contributing almost equally.

>>10024

>Mania styled sprites

Hey, that's a pretty cool idea. You have my support whenever you're able to get around to it, anon.

>>10026

What happened to Sonic?

>>10030

>christmas Shard

I'm excited for all the christmas/holiday pictures with Sonic characters. They're always so comfy.

>>10034

>oldmanscrewshedgehog.png

Man, it's shit like this that makes me really wished everyone understood how Sonic is as a game character. These steps, right here, just highlights why is Sonic's gameplay such a great concept, that matters more to me than characterizations and stories. Especially step 3 in this video, whenever someone say "Sonic was never good". That step, is why he's never good to you. You don't TRY to learn Sonic, you just want the game to play itself… like most of Sonic's modern games do now. And once those autistic stories we use to get took a back seat thanks to 06 and Unleashed's critical backlash?… Well, the gameplay was now out in the open, and now you got nothing to use as a excuse to distract yourself from the bad gameplay, and why fans now complain the games aren't good anymore.

Without stories, you got to eat up the bad gameplay. But with good gameplay, even no story at all wouldn't make the games bad. That's why Mania was so regarded. Even for its time, Generations was loved the same way, because you didn't have bad stories making the games look bad, meanwhile still having decent gameplay at the time. With good gameplay, the game's can keep going. Without it, nothing can save Sonic's image, no matter what.

>>10034

Anon spoiler that shit

>>10034

What was Chuck hoping to accomplish with this?

>>10038

Didn't he think he was a robot?

>>10039

Yeah, but what was he gonna do if he managed to open him up? Just look inside?

>>10040

Well, if Sonic was a robot, he'd want to know all about him and how he works. But Sonic isn't a robot, so he probably would've stopped once he realized he was flesh and blood.

>>10042

Welp. That looks like it's going to be horrendous.

>>10042

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

>>10044

It's Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog!

>>10042

Haha, another top meme from Aaron. Good one, mememan.

Wh-Where's the actual poster?

>>10036

I dunno man, S3&K is highly regarded because it blends story and gameplay into one seamless experience.

Personally for me, I have never been a fan of pure gameplay games, devoid of any context. I like learning about strange worlds, I like going through a level for an actual purpose, I like having characters that I can get attached to because of the way they interact with each other and the world around them.

Having no story doesn't guarantee good gameplay and having a story doesn't automatically make the gameplay worse. Forces would have been garbage with or without story.

>>10046

Anon…

>>10042

This looks horrible. I was one of the biggest defenders of the movie on half chan and one of the only people always trying to get everyone to calm down and wait for a trailer to come out before panicking but god I can't say anything positive about this. I think I'm done trying to keep the peace there. I have lost the little amount of faith I still had

>>10049

You tried, anon. Can't blame you at all for that.

>>10049

>I was one of the biggest defenders of the movie on half chan and one of the only people always trying to get everyone to calm down and wait for a trailer to come out before panicking

Why would you do that? I'd understand if you personally wanted to be skeptical and wait for a trailer before judging but I can't blame anyone for doing it before with the information we got and the experience we have. Like, it was written all over the wall.

I bet a lot of people have suddenly understood why the mandates on the comics are so harsh.

>>10052

It really bothers me that they do harsh mandates on some things and sometimes even veto content but then shit like this movie slips through.

>>10054

>even posted on the nip Sega account

Well, shit.

>ign exclusive

Why the fuck would they do that? Don't link to them directly, archive them and link that. http://archive.is/0KMzB

>The most challenging part of Sonic’s updated design isn’t revealed in this teaser: his eyes. The filmmakers struggled with how best to depict Sonic’s eyes because often he’s only seen with one, and that wouldn’t translate well to the live-action movie.

>“I don’t think SEGA was entirely happy with the eye decision, but these sorts of things you go, ‘It’s going to look weird if we don’t do this.’

It has only begun. What a mess.

>>10053

I'm seeing a lot of speculation that SEGA gave up creative control regarding the movie. Makes sense since they seem to not be fond of some of the design changes as mentioned in the IGN reveal.

Dear sweet god, what has Sonic fans done to deserve this?

So uh /fast/:

Predict the RT score of this game?

>>10058

movie* sorry

>>10058

>>10059

Rotten Tomatoes?

14%

>This fucking interview

https://archive.fo/ICM4D

>>10058

10-20%

Sonic's design is ugly but the actual animation will be beautiful. The physics on his fur/quills will be amazing. Every individual strand/quill will be rendered. Everything just looks so good. Same for the CGI. But you can't polish a turd. The generic fish out of water story will not be enough to save it.

>>10062

To be honest, I'm pretty pissed off that Marza is being used on this film, mostly because their usually fantastic animation will be for that fuck-ugly design

>>10054

Welp, time to put a fucking bullet in my skull.

So will you go see the movie, /fast/?

>>10066

No. I hope this doesn't give them any returns on their investment.

>>10066

Originally I joked with a friend that we should see it to see how bad it would be, but I think I reached the point to where I want nothing to do with it at all.

>>10066

I was planning on seeing it on opening night and even setting up a little meetup for my area but now I don't want to. Even though the story for the movie sounded lame I thought we could at least get some cool action scenes and visuals with Sonic and we'd all have a good time. After today I'm not so sure. The design looks horrible in my opinion and just screams "we don't care about Sonic, we don't like him or his fans or his games, so we threw everything about him out and made this design to ride the tail end of that cartoon animal live action 60-80s remake nostalgia craze and to cash in on the new video game movie trend"

>>10066

No chance in hell.

At most, I'll wait until a torrent comes out & play it in the cytube but beyond that, I won't lay a single cent down on this movie

>>10054

Sonic is really the series of blunders and mishandling and it's so shameful. I'm going to avoid this like the plague.

Honestly at this point Sonic fans and non Sonic fans alike will be happy at Nintendo getting it.

>>10068

I knew it was reminding me of something. It looks way too humanized. They missed the whole point.

>>10075

It's basically 06 2.0 really. One was too lanky, this one is too realistic, but both share the same issue, humanized proportions. The cartooniness makes Modern possible at times, but this explains why Classic is so timeless and regarded better most of the time.

>>10078

How does it feel that the comic artists have more balls to mock the shitty movie decisions than Aaron does as the mememan of the Twitter account? God that bastard must be feeling dead inside by now, if I was him I would have likely left SEGA over this shit cuz I wouldn't be praising this shit no matter how much SEGA paid me in peanuts.

And this still has evidence of whether or not movie Sonic is getting a game at this point. SEGA has to be mentality buttfucked if they greenlighted a game for this shit and didn't drop all traces of it and just let Taxman do all the Sonic work until this cancer blows over.

>>10080

Well with Aaron, I imagine he's gonna ignore the film as much as possible before it comes out. Or do what he did pre-RoL & quit SEGA before it releases

As for whether or not it gets a game, I just can't see SEGA doing that. Supposedly, SEGA doesn't even like the designs, so they would ideally want to pretend this film doesn't even exist. But then again we're getting this movie, so who the hell knows what's going on

>>10077

>this explains why Classic is so timeless and regarded better most of the time.

I think that has more to do with them not fucking with Classic like they fucked with every aspect of Modern, while at the same time releasing some really good games at the right moment.

>>10080

>and didn't drop all traces of it

I was thinking they were probably going to do just that given how good they are at pretending nothing happened but I was surprised to see SOJ tweeting about the movie so I guess they're pretty serious about this.

>that bastard must be feeling dead inside by now

I sometimes feel he started to believe his own lies at some point.

>>10080

Aaron will just double down on the memes and Mania Adventures shilling and pull the "we only have time to put out a few tweets every week so…" card

They should have just made an animated movie out of Unleashed. It's got a small, tight cast of main characters, a small, cute mascot character to market the hell out of, locations inspired by the real world, humans that look right at home in a Pixar flick, and it incorporates "collecting" the emeralds into the story in a way that isn't stupid. It could have been a fun, two-hour globe-trotting adventure with Sonic and pals, but SEGA decided that Hollywood knew better, for some reason.

For 8 years, Sega tried to remove all the realistic elements in Sonic and now they pull this. What are they doing

>>10086

SEGA didn't ok'd this, they were forced thanks to Mollywood contracts. They thought gaijins wouldn't be this retarded, but they teamed up with their worse nightmare. They wanted Unleashed Sonic, but Tim is a fucking faggot.

I feel like Game Freak will learn this lesson too with the Pokemon movie, even if it somehow gets decent sells to begin with.

>>10087

This makes me wonder though: What the hell was the Sony version of the film gonna be & what caused it to change studios?

>>10088

>What the hell was the Sony version of the film gonna be

Likely, ironically, more faithful to Sonic's design since the directors were Sonic fans to begin with.

>what caused it to change studios?

SEGA contract to keep them around expired because the movie took too long to get started.

>>10091

> I'd like it if we could generate noise and backlash to see if we could get some sort of reaction, they generally listen to that and even if they didn't, at least it'd be fun.

Back on 4/sthg/, I was among a few that wanted to push to get Kishimoto fired/demoted, and then some months latter, a similar push to get Ian Flynn to become a localizer/writer for the games over Pontaff happened, but I don't know how far that got because I left around that point.

If fans can get SEGA to push the right things around for the series, I mean, what else can go wrong afterwards?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FSMUMzLUc&t=9s

>sonic's movie design

>>10054

Is someone able to get a translator engine working on the Japanese Twitter link? I want to read their reactions but I can't get neither Bing nor Google to work because of Twitter needing Javascript to show the dumb page and the translators don't allow that.

>>10079

Holy shit, I made that edit

>>10096

>didn't sage

The lead up and the months following the movie release is gonna be hell isnt it? At least a year and a half of nothing, but bad movie memes and sadness.

>>10091

>CT: So you think this movie is going to be a big thing when it comes to reviving Sonic the Hedgehog, making a successful comeback?

>Haruki Satomi: Yes, one of it, one of our efforts to do so.

https://nintendoeverything.com/sega-ceo-on-turning-around-sonic-and-focusing-on-quality-teaming-up-with-mario/

>>10099

Maybe they just chose him just because they could put that on the poster.

>>10101

Honestly wouldn't be surprised. Corporate suits are real fucking retarded.

>>10089

They have been doing for many years, and they have become exceedingly efficient at it

>>10108

I still don't like Boom Sonic's design, but I can understand people going "okay yeah, I would've taken this instead"

>>10110

I bet SEGA had more input on that than they have with Sonic's own movie.

>>10116

What a hoglet.

How would Sonic actually react to being in a movie?

>>10126

I'm legit curious as to who would do it & how would it look.

Can you imagine a Yardley!, or a full-colored ABT drawing that design?

>>10126

I imagine they will, probably something like the Team Sonic Racing book.

>>10066

Does pirating count?

I don't know what the hell they were thinking after Boom and what the American branch of Sega reacted to the OCs having a bigger role during Forces' development as 'Wars". Was that ever verified if you know what I'm talking about? I wouldn't be surprised if Van Robichaux

had something different in mind, trying to do his best until his hands were tied and control was wrested out of his hands in typical hollywood bullshit and the film is too far along to scrap the whole thing now:

https://twitter.com/VanTheBrand/status/485987482203197441

https://twitter.com/VanTheBrand/status/480106293542531074

On the other hand, he could also have just been bullshitting-I recall BRB employees saying similar things about how they were also fans of Sonic, but then again, the blame also was with Sega for not telling them early on about the Nintendo exclusivity deal.

I really want to know what the hell went on during the project's development from day 1 that got to this poster, a sheriff in "Green Hills" and Jim Carrey as Robotnik.

>>10078

Reminds me of the time she hugged werehog and the other hedgehogs by mistake.

>>10084

>I hope this kills all video game movies forever

Don't count on it

>>10129

I imagine the story of this film's development is gonna be incredibly interesting.

I mean, there was a ton of red-flags that this movie wasn't gonna be good, but man, I did not expect it to turn out like this.

>>10129

>and what the American branch of Sega reacted to the OCs having a bigger role during Forces' development as 'Wars". Was that ever verified if you know what I'm talking about?

I don't think it was ever verified. Just rumor from SSMB, IIRC.

>>10130

If they ever put out a "behind the scenes making of" video for this movie it'll probably be more entertaining than the flick itself. Unless they go all out on being a self-aware shitpost ala Boom X100, but I'm not holding my breath. Some have gotten annoyed by Aaron's schtick consisting of self deprecating humor anyway so that might just be the breaking point on the off chance that it's bad but still enjoyable in an ironic way.

http://archive.is/hEAy1

Bonus tweet saved that has Stealth talking to Van. Really something when you realize that this was supposedly right before development on Mania started out as the pitch demo "Sonic Discovery"

>>10132

Yep. That exchange was also 6 months before Boom launched, and as another anon pointed out, Aaron was absent between Lost World and the 25th anniversary party. Can't help but think what kind of hell Robichaux, Webber, and even Iizuka have to put up with in regards to corporate politics or just things outside of their control muddling earnest efforts to make the franchise the best it can be. Like, Shun Nakamura did Samba De Amigo depite directing 06 late in development and prducing Forces. By the sounds of things, it seems that his passions (and perhaps expertise) lie with other games like it and Rhythm Thief:

http://segabits.com/blog/2017/10/23/sonic-team-producer-expresses-interested-in-making-a-new-samba-de-amigo-game-for-nintendo-switch/

Even Forces itself won't seem like such a low compared to the upcoming movie,unless you want to argue that the movie never really held the same potential after it was announced early on that it would contain live action, and thus less inevitable disappointment. But I feel like I'm digressing.

In short, whatever happened (or happens), if the dude really knew his stuff and was competent, he has my sympathy.

>>10134

*Ah, meant for

>>10133

New thread soon?

>>10135

Oh yeah, we hit the bump limit.